Patrick Kavanagh
By: edited by Stan Smith.
Contributors: Smith, Stan, 1943-
Series: Visions and revisions -- 1
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Dublin; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780716528920; 9780716528937
Subjects: Kavanagh, Patrick, -- 1904-1967 -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-198) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : 'important places, times' / Stan Smith; title: Life and work : the poetics of sincerity / Elmer Kennedy-Andrews; title: Kavanagh's poetics and prose : against formulae / Alex Davis; title: The moment of Kavanagh's weekly / Gerry Smyth; title: Kavanagh and the Irish pastoral tradition / Oona Frawley; title: The great hunger and mother Ireland / Edward Larrissy; title: An 'unmeasured womb' : a soul for sale and the 1937 Irish constitution / Michael Murphy; title: The later poetry and its critical reception / John Goodby; title: 'In blinking blankness' : the last poems / John Goodby; title: 'The door and what came through it' : aspects of influence / Bruce Stewart.